"Made With Dorico"

[benwiggy]

For anyone who has “recently joined us”, I just thought I would draw attention to some of the things that people have created with Dorico, and some of the results that you can achieve with it, which might offer some encouragement.

There is a ‘made-with-dorico’ tag, which you can search for:
https://forums.steinberg.net/search?q=%23made-with-dorico%20order%3Alatest

Most of these have focused on new Compositions or Audio renderings; so it might be useful to showcase some of the results you can achieve on the printed page.

Here’s an attempt I made to ‘match’ a page of Henle plate engraving:
Page to Plate2.pdf (2.0 MB)

Also, my recent “Big Book of Anglican Chant”, which features over 600 psalm chants, each as a separate flow. The entire book was made without any manual layout work whatsoever! (The prelim pages were made in Affinity, but using data exported from Dorico to create the index.) There’s a handful of Voice Order changes to some of the notes and maybe 5 minor Note Spacing adjustments.

Big_Book_of_Chants.pdf

For something a bit different, here’s my rendering of Palestrina partbooks:

Palestrina_Dorico.pdf

If anyone else has anything to add, please do so. Things like @dan_kreider 's Hymnals are well worth a look.

New Anglican hymnal

I’m excited to share with you all some photos of a new Anglican hymnal I just completed. It’s 950 pages, with 740 hymns and extensive liturgical content that made use of Dorico’s excellent handling of open meter, among other things. The layout was done in InDesign, with all music exported from Dorico as PDFs. I really can’t think of more than a small handful of little niche things that would have made it any easier to do! The keyboard edition is coming sometime in early 2024, and I want to par…

[Marc_Cerisier]

Speaking of hymnals, I engraved the Divine Office hymnal in Dorico. (GIA Publications - The Divine Office Hymnal).

As each text is presented with both a metrical and plainsong tune, Dorico’s support for open meter was great. The horizontal spacing tool of engrave mode was also so much better to work with than the equivalent in Finale.

The efficiency of Dorico can’t be understated for me… my total time for engraving was about 112 hours.

[k_b]

@benwiggy

here’s my rendering of Palestrina partbooks:

Ben, where did you get that paper?
g,d&r

[benwiggy]

@k_b

where did you get that paper?

I have a python script that puts a background tint on PDFs.

[k_b]

cool.